Assistant Practitioner in Wolverhampton

Main area: Physiotherapy & Occupational Therapy

Grade: Band 4

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (7 day rota service)

Job ref: 225-DIV3-7697919

Employer: The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust

Site: New Cross Hospital

Town: Wolverhampton

Salary: £27,485 - £30,162 per annum

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 13/02/2026 09:00

Job overview

We have an exciting new opportunity to work across the inpatient emergency portals and into the community as an Assistant Practitioner, supporting the new 10-year health plan. You will be key in helping to deliver and develop this pathway to ensure that we support flow and the patient journey appropriately, ensuring high quality care.

Main duties of the job

• You will work in collaboration with the Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy teams to support and develop the pathways from the emergency portals, out into the community.
• You will have previous extensive experience working with patients within a ward setting and community and will be familiar with processes around these areas.
• You will also be a motivated individual with a desire to inspire and implement positive change which will have a long lasting impact on our overall patient experience and outcomes.
• IT skills are essential as you will be required to use digital systems.

Working for our organisation

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve. We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow. We’re passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients.

We are delighted that we have been rated as “Good” by CQC. We have achieved numerous awards; The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020.

The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Supporting service users

• Develops, manages, and maintains positive, appropriate relationships with service users, families and carers, demonstrating respect, kindness, compassion and empathy at all times.
• Consistently deploys care, treatment and support strategies to promote and provide person-centred care, including providing information, advice and guidance to service users, carers, families, health professionals and others.
• Understands the social, cultural, and economic influences, individual circumstances, behaviours, and lifestyle choices that impact on health outcomes for service users and their families, including health inequalities.
• Understands the aims and principles of health promotion, protection and improvement and importance of relevant interventions for individual service users and their families, including making every contact count.
• Applies principles of behaviour change within individualised contexts to enable personalised discussion, sensitively communicating complex and/or potentially challenging information to service users if appropriate to facilitate change including through social prescribing.
• Able to identify ways to promote dignity and is aware of individuals’ environments and factors that might cause discomfort.
• Understands a range of organisations in the health and social care system and services provided, referring service users to services appropriately.

Communication and information management

• Understands role requirement and the importance of accessing, maintaining and storing documentation relating to care, in accordance with local guidance and legal requirements for maintaining confidentiality and data protection.
• Keeps complete, clear, accurate and timely records, utilising digital platforms as required.
• Communicates through a variety of methods, including the use of interpersonal, written and verbal and nonverbal skills. Exchanges information with service user and families using active listening, compassion, empathy, and coproduction techniques with the service user.

Safe and inclusive environments

• Contributes to the maintenance of healthy and safe working environments through appropriate practice, use of resources, techniques and behaviours and understanding of relevant legislation.
• Contributes to the development, application and evaluation of organisational procedures and protocols.
• Identifies and manages risks, including assessment of moving and handling, using local policies and procedures. Is aware of the environment in which they work and how to maintain safety for themselves and others.

Research and service improvement

• Participates in, contributes to, and may lead, audits, service evaluation and quality improvement projects relevant to own work.
• Applies research governance, ethics, protocols and guidelines and may undertake more complex research activities including data collection and analysis. Disseminates research findings.

Person specification

Experience

• Experience of sports/therapy/anatomy - placements/experience on degree course
• Therapy Assistant role at B3

Qualifications

Flexible Working - As a major employer in the Black Country and West Birmingham region we are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance. We want the Black Country and West Birmingham region to be the best place to work and as such will consider all requests to work flexibly taking into account personal and individual circumstances alongside the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the Recruiting Manager as part of the on-boarding process.

Qualifications - Please be advised that if the post that you are applying for requires any level of qualification (e.g. A-Levels, Degree etc) or Professional Registration (e.g. Nursing and Midwifery Council, General Medical Council etc) you will be required to provide proof as part of the pre-employment process. By submitting your application you are giving the Trust permission to check the qualification certificates provided back to the source provider. Please note that a sample of all applicant’s qualifications will be checked with the educational institution or provider.

Visa/Sponsorship Information

The Trust welcomes suitably qualified applicants including those who may require a Trust issued Certificate of Sponsorship. However, not all our roles are eligible for visa sponsorship. If you require sponsorship, we recommend applicants check whether the role is eligibility prior to applying.